Archie is the second Missouri school district to receive a FEMA grant for Monolithic Dome construction. The Niangua R-V School district completed a Monolithic Dome pre-school classroom last year with funding from the federal agency. A school district in Fowler, Kansas also completed a multipurpose dome building last year thanks to a federal grant. A fourth FEMA-funded dome school was completed in Woodsboro, Texas.

School districts in Oklahoma and Illinois also are exploring the possibility of building Monolithic Domes. According to the State Journal Register Springfield Schools is researching the option of constructing a Monolithic Dome middle school gymnasium. “Our business department is looking at monolithic domes … for cost-saving measures,” Superintendent Walter Milton, Jr. told the Springfield School Board this month. “It’s a new concept to me.”

A school district in Oklahoma is also hoping to receive a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to supplement a $1.7 proposed bond issue needed to fund new construction. Hulbert Public Schools in Tahlequah would use the federal money to finance a new Monolithic Dome elementary school and cafeteria that would double as community disaster shelters, according to an article in the Tahlequah Daily Press.

Construction is set to begin soon on three Monolithic Domes in the Spur Independent School District in Texas. The buildings will consist of a 450-seat gym, a 450-seat auditorium, and a structure that connects the gym and the auditorium and will house the lobby, concessions, music room and support spaces. Lee Gray of Salt Lake City, Utah is the architect on the project.

Since its opening in 1991, the two Monolithic Domes of City Bible Church have become somewhat of a landmark in Portland, Oregon. Art Johansen, facility administrator at City Bible, is very much in favor of that development.

Being the coinventor of the dome and the founder of the Monolithic Dome Institute has given David B. South the opportunity to not only fine tune the building process, but to create a company whose main mission is to make available Monolithic Dome technology to all the world. It is the hope of Monolithic to educate the public about Monolithic Domes and to provide professional services to its customers by creating a successful partnership with them through all phases of their dome design, planning and construction.

What’s a fertilizer blend plant’s number-one enemy? Moisture! If water gets into or condensation forms inside a storage unit, it quite quickly begins degrading the fertilizer and forming rust. But Monolithic uses a technology that keeps that troublesome process to a minimum.

A new Monolithic Dome safe room is under construction in Birmingham, Alabama. It’s part of a broader initiative to provide community storm shelters following the devastating Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4 tornado in 2011. It is the fourth dome built in the Pratt City area, which was hardest hit by the monster tornado.

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